A Kidnapped Turkish Businessman Released In Beirut

The Turkish businessman Aydin Tufan Tekin, 28, left, who was kidnapped by the Meqdad clan in the suburb of Beirut on Aug. 15, shakes hands with Lebanese Interior Minister Marwan Charbel, right, after he was released at the Lebanese General Security Forces headquarters, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2012. Aydin kidnapped last month by an armed clan in Lebanon appealed to his country’s government Saturday to work harder to secure the release of a Lebanese abducted in Syria. <AP/Bilal Hussein>

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